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The latest wearable Series Eleven brings the one thing the majority really need from their wrist gadget: extended battery performance.

In other aspects, the new model serves as a direct replacement to the Series 10, matching it in styling, dimensions and features, with the majority of improvements derived from watchOS.

This new model additionally priced £30 lower in the UK, available from 369 pounds (449 euros/399 dollars/A$679), positioned above the recently updated £219 Watch SE in the budget category alongside the £749 Ultra 3 in the premium segment.

Appearance and Screen

Following the design of Series 10, the new model measures only 9.7mm thick, which makes it a slim fit to the wrist, convenient to tuck below clothing plus more pleasant overnight.

Featuring a 2,000nit OLED screen offers excellent visibility for viewing in various lighting, staying legible to read off-angle, making quickly looking for timekeeping or alerts easy.

The surface features using glass that is significantly more durable as before, while not reaching the hardness of sapphire crystal, which is reserved for the more expensive titanium editions.

Power and Endurance

The new watch utilizes the same S10 chip as last year's model while adding support for optional 5G and stronger reception when you're exploring remote areas.

The batteries show improvement in capacity approximately 10 percent for the 42mm and larger versions in that order.

Larger model achieved approximately two full days in testing featuring overnight analysis when not used for fitness.

The majority of users should approximately monitor two full days with overnight use prior to requiring power, which takes just over an hour employing 20W or higher charger (sold separately), hitting about 70 percent in half an hour.

Should you engage in exercise, battery endurance reaches about eight hours of tracking, sufficient duration for endurance events or two.

Technical Specifications

• Dimensions: 42 or 46mm
• Case thickness: 9.7 millimeters
• Mass: around 30 to 37g
• Chip: S10
• Storage: 64GB capacity
• Software platform: latest watchOS
• Swim capability: 50 meters (50m waterproof)
• Monitoring features: HR, ECG, Blood oxygen, temp, depth, Microphone, Speaker, NFC, Global navigation, compass, altimeter
• Communication options: Bluetooth 5.3, Wi-Fi connectivity, NFC capability, UWB, optional 5G

Operating System Updates

This new model ships with the latest watchOS, which runs on every version since the sixth generation and newer.

This includes the latest Liquid Glass interface, resulting in display features somewhat see-through, and adds additional display styles: a large digital face named Flow sensitive to gestures plus an analog display called Exactograph, which breaks out chronological elements as separate indicators.

The standout addition is the wrist-flick gesture, requiring swift turning your wrist away from you and then back to close applications returning to the home screen.

The feature operates without looking at the device to look at the watch, enabling wearers to stop notifications with a satisfying flick of the wrist.

Health and Fitness Tracking

The wearable device incorporates an extensive wellness tracking package of tools from previous models while introducing a couple of new features along with updated exercise application.

High BP warnings look for signs of elevated BP through extended monitoring, notifying you to get yourself checked out when pulse information indicates potential a hidden problem.

Updated sleep scoring enhances rest analysis simpler to understand, like other brands including various manufacturers.

Each morning the screen presents a numerical rating separated into components across three areas: duration, bedtime and interruptions, each easy to understand and viewable through the wellness application through your mobile too.

Exercise companion functions as intelligent training utilizing your previous workout data to provide pep talks during fitness activities, including identifying previous running sessions multiple weekly exercises and exertion levels you demonstrated.

Additionally offering spoken alerts upon achieving certain milestones during exercise, such as a particular pace, pulse rate, range, duration or further statistics.

Users can select of three voices, which speak to you over Bluetooth headphones synced to the wearable across twelve exercise types, including walking, running or cycling.

But, this feature depends on when you bring along newer iPhone models alongside, proving inconvenient enough that I would forgo the feature eliminating hassle with a phone on runs.

Green Initiatives

Apple says energy storage maintains over one thousand full charge cycles with at least 80% of its original capacity and can be replaced for ninety-five pounds.

Repairs cost from £295 to £389 according to device type.

Materials include over forty percent sustainable elements including aluminium, cobalt, copper, glass components, gold, lithium, specialized materials, steel, tin, {titanium|